Have you missed the latest events on the war in Ukraine? 20 minutes Get the point for you every night. Between strong declarations, advances on the front and the results of the fighting, here is the main on Tuesday, April 15, 2025, on the 1.147th day of war.
The fact of the day
The results of the Russian double strike on the city of Soumy on Sunday, one of the deadliest since the start of the war, is now 35 dead and more than a hundred wounded. This drama cost its post at Volodymyr Artioukh, the governor of the region whose Ukrainian government confirmed the dismissal on Tuesday. A deputy and the mayor of a city in the region accused him of having authorized a decoration ceremony to soldiers in Soumy on Sunday. However, it is precisely this justification that Russia put forward on Monday, saying that he had targeted civilians but a “meeting” of the Ukrainian command.
A senior Ukrainian official also told AFP that the governor’s work has been deemed unsatisfactory for a while, describing him as a “very mediocre manager” in this position he had occupied for two years. The Soumy strike has become “the last tragic drop” which led to its dismissal, added this manager speaking under the cover of anonymity.
The Declaration of the Day
“” It is not good for Europe, and it is not in the interest of America, that Europe is a permanent vassal of the United States in terms of security »»
The leaders of the old continent can always count on the disdain of JD Vance. “We consider Europe as our ally. We simply want an alliance where Europeans will be a little more independent, and our security and trade relations will reflect, “said the US vice-president in an interview with the British Information site Unherd. “The reality is that-it is brutal to say but it is true-all the European security infrastructure has been, since my birth, subsidized by the United States of America,” added the one who had already moved to Munich to say that freedom of expression was threatened in Europe.
The figure of the day
4. The number of Russian journalists sentenced on Tuesday to five and a half years in prison by a Moscow court on Tuesday. They were found guilty of having collaborated with the organization, classified “extremist”, of the former opponent Alexei Navalny. Among the convicts is Antonina Kravtsova, who worked under the name of Antonina Favorskaïa, very regularly covered the Navalny trials. On February 15, 2024, she had produced the last video showing the opponent still alive, during a hearing, the day before his death when he appeared in Visio from his Arctic prison.
“You are pride of Russia,” reported to reporters a man present in the room reading the verdict.
The trend
Mark Rutte, the secretary general of NATO, made a surprise visit this Tuesday in Odessa alongside Volodymyr Zelensky. And he gave the pulse of peace negotiations started by the United States and Russia. “These discussions are not easy, especially following this horrible violence,” he said. A sound of bell very different from that of Steve Witkoff, the special emissary of Donald Trump, who said on Monday, three days his new meeting with Vladimir Putin, that the talks were “on the verge” to allow advances.
The recent bombings of Ukrainian cities “demonstrate that the Russians are not only determined to continue the war but that they put pressure on the West instead of feeling the force of pressure (Western) on themselves,” he said.
Our file on the war in Ukraine
Volodymyr Zelensky took advantage of the visit of the boss of the Atlantic Alliance to repeat that his country had an “acute need” of anti -aircraft defense systems, in particular patriot, of American manufacturing, which make it possible to shoot down ballistic missiles. Such equipment and ammunition necessary for their operation are “available” worldwide and their possible delivery to Ukraine “depends only on the decisions of the leaders,” he said.
He also put the deployment in Ukraine on the carpet of a Western military contingent: “The United Kingdom, France and other NATO countries are already actively preparing the basics of a security contingent in Ukraine. It is important that we are all fast enough and effective in this process, ”insisted the Ukrainian president.
